Informational Materials
General
- Kepro HCQU Brochure
- Kepro HCQU Training Catalog
- Kepro HCQU Online Training Brochure
- PA DHS: Everyday Lives – Values in Action
- ODP/OMHSAS: Positive Approaches Journal
- Complex Technical Assistance Referral Form
Care Guides & Resource Lists
- Behavior is Communications: Strategies for Understanding Challenging Behaviors
- Building a Better Behavior Plan
- Caring for People with Medical Needs: A Resource for Developing Care Guides
- Person-Directed Language: A Guide to Becoming Person-Directed
- Sexuality Resources
- Sexuality Resources for People with I/DD (Western HCQUs collaboration)
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Informational Packet Mar2020 (HCQU factsheet and CDC handouts/posters)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Informational Packet Apr2020 (Updated CDC guidelines re: People with Disabilities, Caring for Someone Not in Healthcare Setting, Living in Close Quarters, Discontinuation of Isolation Not in Healthcare Settings, Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Home, Return to Work for Healthcare Personnel, and Strategies to Mitigate Staffing Shortages)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Informational Packet Jul2020 (Websites helpful for developing agency policy and procedure and mitigating challenges presented when staff and/or individuals test positive for COVID-19, and many updated CDC guidelines)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Informational Packet Oct2020 (Links to updated CDC resources and guidelines related to COVID-19)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Informational Packet Nov2020 (Links to updated CDC resources and guidelines related to COVID-19, including PPE optimization strategies, PPE burn rate calculators, and when to quarantine scenarios)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Informational Packet Jan2021 (Information related to considerations for policy development and emergency management plans, when caregivers can return to work after exposure/treatment, quarantine vs. isolation, staffing shortages, testing for COVID-19, and collaboration with local health departments)
- Coronavirus Test Rehearsal Guide
- COVID-19: Considerations for Policy Development and Emergency Management Plans
- COVID-19: Community Spread Fact Sheet
- COVID-19: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Fact Sheet
- COVID-19: Fear-Anxiety
- COVID-19: How to Talk about COVID-19 with Self-advocates
- COVID-19: Infection Control Factsheet
- COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment Factsheet
- COVID-19: Remaining Connected and Overcoming Boredom
- COVID-19: Screening Fact Sheet
- Getting a Shot Rehearsal Guide with COVID-19 Addendum
- ODP's Coronavirus (COVID-19) page (on MyODP.com)
- ODPANN 20-088 (Reissue) COVID-19 Guidance on Masks, Screening, and Handwashing
- Pandemic Activity Book #1 - Let's Keep It Clean
- Pandemic Activity Book #2 - Let's Eat Healthy
- Pandemic Activity Book #3 - Let's Be Safe in the Kitchen
- Pandemic Activity Book #4 - Let's Think and Create
- Pandemic Activity Book #5 - Let's Move
- Pandemic Activity Book #6 - Celebrate Me
- Reducing the Spread of Infection Rehearsal Guide
- Transitioning into the Community after a Pandemic Rehearsal Guide
- Vaccine Information page of PA Dept. of Health Website
- Wearing a Mask Rehearsal Guide
"Fatal Four"
- Choking/Aspiration
- Constipation
- Dehydration
- Seizures
- Sepsis
- Special Edition 2018 HCQU CARES - "The Fatal Four"
Wellness
- Avoid Hypothermia and Frostbite (CDC)
- Extreme Cold Weather (ODP Health Alert)
- Flu Season 2020-21 (ODP Health Alert)
- Measles Can Be Prevented (ODP Health Alert)
- Skin Care: Preventing Pressure Injuries Booklet (All HCQUs)
- Skin Integrity Health (ODP Health Alert)
- Summer Heat Safety (ODP Health Alert)
- Tuberculin Skin Test Antigens Shortage - ODP's Response (ODP Announcement)
Keystone Peer Review Organization, Inc., is the service provider on behalf of Westmoreland County Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.